"Stan" wrote in message
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Now to the question, my knees were screaming for at least 5 minutes
sitting
there on the "snow". I'm not sure I have ever felt a more sustained pain
in
my life. After a while I was able to continue boarding for a few more
runs.
Roughly four weeks later my knees are still slightly painfull to the touch
and I thought they were doing better. Yesterday I went back up, cast and
all with some knee pads! Wrist was fine, first time I went to my knees
though, just after binding up nothing violent, I thought I had gone back
to
the original crash. Very painfull. I realize the knees are just bone and
other non-meaty things but, will it be next year before they feel normal
again?? It's been roughly 4 or 5 weeks since the original injury and they
are still tender to the touch but other than direct pressure feel fine.

After going to my knees and feeling they weren't that recovered sure made
me
tentative the rest of the day. Am I dealing with the knees for the rest
of
the year??

Sorry for the length,

Stan.


A few years back I crashed onto my knees (icy park, jump too big, shouldn't
have been there etc.etc.). Went down with enough force to break one of the
knee guards I was wearing. One knee was really swollen and eventually I went
to the doc. Luckily there didn't seem to be any real damage but he gave me a
load of ibuprofen for the swelling which sorted it out. He said I probably
had Bursitis but it was impossible to tell for sure without a scan. Don't
seem to have had any problems since.

You can't be too careful though, it's easy to damage a ligament so you
really should see a doc, even if it seems to cure itself.

Jay.